Carnation Or Peony?

A L O H A From Honolulu!

If you want to be a great leader,

start by seeing greatness in others,

and then inspire, encourage, and

coach them to achieve it.

  John Gordon 

Almost everything will

work again if you unplug it

for a few minutes. . .

Including you. Anne Lamott

Creativity is

intelligence having fun. Einstein

The truth does not require

your participation

in order to exist. Terence McKenna

Youth looks ahead Age looks back The moment, shiny penny, Rolls unnoticed

Down the crack.

Pixie

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Glows

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Don't be pushed around

by the fears in your mind.

Be led by the

dreams in your heart.

  Roy T. Bennett

I have done nothing all summer

but wait for myself

to be myself again.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

From deep in creatures

radiance gleams,

Heart-fire burning

soft as dreams.

Enveloped

in the sweet embrace,

We find our haven 

and sacred space.

Where heart and soul

find sweet repose,

While love's pure essence

gently flows.

   Cloudia Charters

The mind is the shadow

of the light it seeks.

Jim Dodge

“Anam Cara” Soul Friend

It is in the shelter

of each other that

the people live.
Irish proverb

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Fight For Change With Grace

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Anyone can be an idealist

Anyone can be a cynic.

The hard part lies

somewhere in the middle

i.e. being human.

 Hugh Macleod

I think that sadly over the last many years, there's been this kind of perverse approach to what strength looks like, which is to suggest that the measure of one's strength is based on who you beat down, instead of what we know: the true measure of your strength is based on who you lift up,

Kamala Harris

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Desmond Tutu

Ah, how good it feels!

The hand of an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Perhaps it dreams

of ocean blue,
Or maybe puddles, fresh and new.
A tiny Houdini

full of glee,
This water bottle escaped

and now is free!

Sometimes It IS Gold

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Too many people miss

the silver lining because

they're expecting gold.

Maurice Sendak

Honolulu Back Streets

Grieving the people you have loved is part and parcel of growing old and it takes a lot of will power and keeping a constant check on your thoughts to stay positive.

    Nicky Melville

 Friends are as companions

on a journey,  who ought to

aid each other

to persevere in the road

to a happier life.

     Pythagoras

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Things that were

hard to bear are

sweet to remember.

Seneca

Yet in the heart a flicker gleams,

Sparks of hope the distant dream.

At last from depths of darkest night,

Ariseth dawn with healing light.

Let us unite with hearts aflame,

To mend the world and heal its pain.

With kindness sown, with empathy’s grace

We’ll build together a

Much better place.

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V O T E

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Observing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

As she read on, her surroundings

gradually faded, and soon there lay

about her only the mists of dream;

the purple, star-strewn mists

beyond Time, where only

gods and dreamers walk.

H.P. Lovecraft

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You must live in the present,

launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

    Henry David Thoreau

The biggest creative cheat code is to get out of your own way and let the universe work through you... Rather than trying too hard to micromanage the process and control the outcome, in both creativity and life, I have learned that it’s better to open myself to unexpected solutions and make

myself a vessel for the muse.

     James McCrae

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease

observing a spear

of summer grass.

Walt Whitman

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The Choice

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The Power of One

One tree can start a forest.

One smile can begin a friendship;

One hand can lift a soul;

One word can frame the goal;

One candle can wipe out darkness;

One laugh can conquer gloom;

One hope can raise your spirits;

One touch can show you care;

One life can make the difference,

BE THAT ONE TODAY.

Anna Grace Taylor

Our Differences

are ever at war 

with our Commonalities. 

Be careful which you feed!

  Pixie

 The door to safety swings

 on the hinges

 of common sense.  

    Unknown

Honolulu 7:21 pm

Democracy is messy

but deeply beautiful.

Steve Schmidt

 There never was 

any heart truly 

great and generous,

that was not also

 tender and 

compassionate.

    Robert Frost

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Smiles, understanding, a gentle heart,

Kindness sown, a healing start!

Competence gleams in steady hand,

Guiding justice across the land.

The contrast stark, a bitter brew,

Mean spirit’s chill, a toxic cue.

Chaos reigns in wild unrest,

Troubled minds and wounded breasts.

One builds, inspires hopes and dreams,

A tapestry of golden gleams.

The other tears down, seeks to maim,

A darkened world their haunting claim.

The tempest rages, dark and deep,

Mean-spiritedness spreads

a cruel sleep.

Chaos reigns and wild unrest,

His troubled mind and vacant chest.

So battle wages, deep within,

Between the angel and the sin.

For in our hearts this choice resides,

Where virtue dwells or evil hides.

     Cloudia Charters